Greg
Paranormal Novice
Hi! I am new to this community but have been listening to the Paracast podcast for about a year. I am a big fan of all things paranormal and have been since I was 7-8 years old as this is as far back as I can remember having "experiences". Most of these experiences are small and insignificant but experiences non the less, but more interestingly (at least to me) , they span from UFO's to ghostly happenings. Events have also happened to my parents and grandparents. Maybe I have the ability to sense "things" better than a lot of people or I'm just perceptive. I'm not sure. Anyways, I'll tell you of all of the experiences I myself have had or my parents have told me have happened with me present when I was a baby.
So the longest term experience that we have had in my family occurred in a house in Alburg, Vermont when I was a newborn. I have questioned both of my parents separately on these events and both have identical stories and my father is a very credible person as....for a lack of a better way to say it.... doesn't care enough to lie about anything like this. But some of the stories they tell are some of the usual suspects like a mass amount of dead flies in once certain room in the house (my brother's bedroom). The hallways getting very cold suddenly. Faucets turnings on and off. Missing items (particularly, McDonald's apple pies my dad would bring home from work). A couple of significant happenings here...apparently, there was a cellar bulkhead door that lead to outside. It had a latch on it I assume that would hold it shut, but I guess my father would always find this door open, letting cold air into the house. So one day during the colder months, my father decided he was going to nail this door shut using a piece of wood. He woke up cold either that night or the next morning (I forget some details) and went down to the cellar. The bulkhead door was wide open, and the board he used was placed up against the wall. I don't think my father tried nailing this door shut again.
The most significant item here is this story. The house they were renting in Alburg was fully furnished when they moved in. They moved the furniture that was there where they liked it, weather in another room or put it in storage (cellar) or whatever. I guess all was good until they were going to move out of the house and were for some reason showing the house to prospective new renters (not sure why they were doing this....maybe to help the landlord?). They left the house to meet with the people in the driveway. By the time they came back in, all of the furniture in the house was moved to the same exact spot it was in when they originally rented the house. This gave me chills when my father told me the story. My mother mirrored the story when asked later....I believe them. After they moved out alittle while later, my mother found out that a man had committed suicide in the driveway of the house some years earlier. Maybe it was this guy? He did not seem malicious by their stories....just wanted to have some fun.
A while later, my father had a house built new on the border of Swanton, and Highgate, Vermont. We found out later that this house was built on an indian burial ground (Abenaki Indians). I NEVER felt comfortable in this house. I always felt like someone was watching me. I would have very vivid dreams of aliens and floating orbs flying all around that would materialize into UFO's. To this day, I still dream about this house. My brother says he would hear chains dragging across the attic. Problem is....we did not have an attic. My brother would have very vivid dreams of "beings" looking in at us through the windows.
One night, I was at a neighbors house helping her babysit her siblings. A few hours in, we got a very weird felling....like we were creeped out. The handle of the door that lead from the kitchen to the garage started jiggling like someone was about to walk through it. We freaked out and once we calmed down alittle, opened the door. The garage door was closed and it was dark in there. Nobody had come home....nothing.
In 2011 I was vacationing in Vermont ( I live in San Diego now). I was staying at my mom's house which she thinks is haunted as well as my sister. This is located in Highgate, Vermont. I was in the guest room with my girlfriend late at night trying to shut my eyes and got a very creepy feeling that came over me. The room seemed to get MUCH darker. I opened my eyes and FELT like there was someone right above me looking down. It was one of the scariest feelings I have felt. Let it be known that I do not stay at my mom's house anymore and have not since that night. My sister who currently uses that room as her bedroom says the volume on the tv goes up and down and the radio turns on and off and the stations change.
A very small insignificant occurrence: I moved to San Diego and rented a house in Mission Valley area. I would just be in my room on the 2nd floor and every day around the same time (3-4:00pm) I would head the front door shut pretty hard and foot steps up the stairs. I had roommates so I would assume this was them most of the time, until I realized that it was never anyone doing this. I have to think...either my imagination or some sort of residual haunting. Either way, I never felt threatened and never had an issue sleeping.
I have had many ufo sightings. I have always been a sky gazer. I'm always waiting to see something flying by. In Swanton, Vermont (roughly around 1996-1998)..I was home late one night watching my sister (I was roughly 15 by this time). We lived right on Lake Champlain. I remember getting the sense to look outside. I saw a really large orange glowing sphere positioned, what looked like, directly in the center of the lake. If you know anything about Lake Champlain, you know that it is very long and narrow...running the length of Vermont. The object was there for hours it seemed. I had a hard time taking my eyes off of it. Finally, my mother came home and I rushed to show her, and the object was gone. Was it a UFO? To me it was, but was it extraterrestrial in nature? I'm not sure. I had never seen anything like it.
Around that time, and at that same home, I was standing in the road one very dark night with some friends. I heard something with a low pitched hum go directly over my head, but I did not see anything. This may have been my imagination, but I know I felt very odd about it.
Again, around that time, maybe a year or two later....I was on my way to my friends house at night. In order to get to his house, you need to take a few dark, dirt/rock roads. I got about 3/4 of the way to his house and noticed something very bright flash over my car, like it was speeding by. Simultaneously, my car was about to die....it started sputtering and I was going roughly 30-35 mph. I panicked and stomped on the gas, and seemed to gas my way out of shutting down, then it was over. I made it to my friends house extremely freaked out....and never experienced anything like this again.
The sightings slowed down for about the next 10 years, until I moved to San Diego. Nothing overly significant but twice, about a year apart I saw an object in the sky.....it looked like a row of orbs (probably about 10-15 orbs in length) doing a serpentine motion in the sky. I saw this once over a marine base and once in Temecula, Ca around 3:00 in the morning. Around the same time (2010-2011), I saw something cruising in the sky that had an interesting light patten. It looked like it was a longer object. It had no noise, but it was a distance away. But it probably had 5-6 alternating lights on the side of it. This struck me as odd. I live next to an airport but it didn't look like anything I have seen in the sky before.
There have been some smaller sightings that looked suspicious. Like red lights going over my grand parents house in Phoenix, Az.
Thank you for reading this really long post and I hope some of you can shed some insight onto my experiences and maybe add some similar ones of your own.
So the longest term experience that we have had in my family occurred in a house in Alburg, Vermont when I was a newborn. I have questioned both of my parents separately on these events and both have identical stories and my father is a very credible person as....for a lack of a better way to say it.... doesn't care enough to lie about anything like this. But some of the stories they tell are some of the usual suspects like a mass amount of dead flies in once certain room in the house (my brother's bedroom). The hallways getting very cold suddenly. Faucets turnings on and off. Missing items (particularly, McDonald's apple pies my dad would bring home from work). A couple of significant happenings here...apparently, there was a cellar bulkhead door that lead to outside. It had a latch on it I assume that would hold it shut, but I guess my father would always find this door open, letting cold air into the house. So one day during the colder months, my father decided he was going to nail this door shut using a piece of wood. He woke up cold either that night or the next morning (I forget some details) and went down to the cellar. The bulkhead door was wide open, and the board he used was placed up against the wall. I don't think my father tried nailing this door shut again.
The most significant item here is this story. The house they were renting in Alburg was fully furnished when they moved in. They moved the furniture that was there where they liked it, weather in another room or put it in storage (cellar) or whatever. I guess all was good until they were going to move out of the house and were for some reason showing the house to prospective new renters (not sure why they were doing this....maybe to help the landlord?). They left the house to meet with the people in the driveway. By the time they came back in, all of the furniture in the house was moved to the same exact spot it was in when they originally rented the house. This gave me chills when my father told me the story. My mother mirrored the story when asked later....I believe them. After they moved out alittle while later, my mother found out that a man had committed suicide in the driveway of the house some years earlier. Maybe it was this guy? He did not seem malicious by their stories....just wanted to have some fun.
A while later, my father had a house built new on the border of Swanton, and Highgate, Vermont. We found out later that this house was built on an indian burial ground (Abenaki Indians). I NEVER felt comfortable in this house. I always felt like someone was watching me. I would have very vivid dreams of aliens and floating orbs flying all around that would materialize into UFO's. To this day, I still dream about this house. My brother says he would hear chains dragging across the attic. Problem is....we did not have an attic. My brother would have very vivid dreams of "beings" looking in at us through the windows.
One night, I was at a neighbors house helping her babysit her siblings. A few hours in, we got a very weird felling....like we were creeped out. The handle of the door that lead from the kitchen to the garage started jiggling like someone was about to walk through it. We freaked out and once we calmed down alittle, opened the door. The garage door was closed and it was dark in there. Nobody had come home....nothing.
In 2011 I was vacationing in Vermont ( I live in San Diego now). I was staying at my mom's house which she thinks is haunted as well as my sister. This is located in Highgate, Vermont. I was in the guest room with my girlfriend late at night trying to shut my eyes and got a very creepy feeling that came over me. The room seemed to get MUCH darker. I opened my eyes and FELT like there was someone right above me looking down. It was one of the scariest feelings I have felt. Let it be known that I do not stay at my mom's house anymore and have not since that night. My sister who currently uses that room as her bedroom says the volume on the tv goes up and down and the radio turns on and off and the stations change.
A very small insignificant occurrence: I moved to San Diego and rented a house in Mission Valley area. I would just be in my room on the 2nd floor and every day around the same time (3-4:00pm) I would head the front door shut pretty hard and foot steps up the stairs. I had roommates so I would assume this was them most of the time, until I realized that it was never anyone doing this. I have to think...either my imagination or some sort of residual haunting. Either way, I never felt threatened and never had an issue sleeping.
I have had many ufo sightings. I have always been a sky gazer. I'm always waiting to see something flying by. In Swanton, Vermont (roughly around 1996-1998)..I was home late one night watching my sister (I was roughly 15 by this time). We lived right on Lake Champlain. I remember getting the sense to look outside. I saw a really large orange glowing sphere positioned, what looked like, directly in the center of the lake. If you know anything about Lake Champlain, you know that it is very long and narrow...running the length of Vermont. The object was there for hours it seemed. I had a hard time taking my eyes off of it. Finally, my mother came home and I rushed to show her, and the object was gone. Was it a UFO? To me it was, but was it extraterrestrial in nature? I'm not sure. I had never seen anything like it.
Around that time, and at that same home, I was standing in the road one very dark night with some friends. I heard something with a low pitched hum go directly over my head, but I did not see anything. This may have been my imagination, but I know I felt very odd about it.
Again, around that time, maybe a year or two later....I was on my way to my friends house at night. In order to get to his house, you need to take a few dark, dirt/rock roads. I got about 3/4 of the way to his house and noticed something very bright flash over my car, like it was speeding by. Simultaneously, my car was about to die....it started sputtering and I was going roughly 30-35 mph. I panicked and stomped on the gas, and seemed to gas my way out of shutting down, then it was over. I made it to my friends house extremely freaked out....and never experienced anything like this again.
The sightings slowed down for about the next 10 years, until I moved to San Diego. Nothing overly significant but twice, about a year apart I saw an object in the sky.....it looked like a row of orbs (probably about 10-15 orbs in length) doing a serpentine motion in the sky. I saw this once over a marine base and once in Temecula, Ca around 3:00 in the morning. Around the same time (2010-2011), I saw something cruising in the sky that had an interesting light patten. It looked like it was a longer object. It had no noise, but it was a distance away. But it probably had 5-6 alternating lights on the side of it. This struck me as odd. I live next to an airport but it didn't look like anything I have seen in the sky before.
There have been some smaller sightings that looked suspicious. Like red lights going over my grand parents house in Phoenix, Az.
Thank you for reading this really long post and I hope some of you can shed some insight onto my experiences and maybe add some similar ones of your own.
I jest. Anyway, for the sake of not cramming a bunch of questions into paragraphs, I'll break my inquiries out separately below:
I think it might be a valuable resource to have since parents and older people don't stick around forever - or if they do it could become difficult to get a good interview out of them.